The Writing Life : My Writing Life Xposed

Dark Visions Relationships the second time around in the world of Amazon anthologies are just as rewarding and exciting as the first time we — over 20 authors — connected with Dan Alatorre’s editing and compiling skills last year (2017) for the production of The Box Under the Bed. Select and Read our eerie, compelling […]

Short Stories and Story Art The date on this original Short Story, Racing Dilemma, presented BELOW, is 1967. It’s creation was a result of my passionate interest in sports, particularly in Thoroughbred horse racing. The story was one of several sports stories I wrote as I was continuing my writing studies with the Famous Writers […]

There always has been a dog in my life — a canine, I mean… So, it seems a natural thing for my writing to include dog stories. However, I took that to a new level after my kids were grown and gone and I was single again, with a new life partner — a Newfoundland […]

Throughout my writing life, I’ve been a maverick with POV, character point of view. The real problem for me on POV is the fact that I really enjoy using multiple POVs, and that can easily lead to story confusion. If you consider the following two endings, used in different versions of the same story, you […]

BAT Publishing Stories I still like the following short story, one I wrote many years ago when my children were small, because I was able to give it a happy ending, something I have not always lived, nor sought to achieve in my writerly wonderings. Happy endings don’t always happen in real life, and many […]

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In my continuing Scrabbled Short Story challenge, I have made a scan (ABOVE) of a Scrabble board game with less than ten words listed. Can you establish a brief story with less than ten words? There are just six words on the board. Unscrabble them into separate words to discover their secret message. ******* ***Credit: […]

InterlockED (The Abridged Handcrafted Edition of the complete Novel In A Nutshell “Interlock”) by Barbara Anne Helberg +++++ +++Credit: “InterlockED” Chapter B and Photos from the personal and copyrighted collection of Barbara Anne Helberg Website (for more information on “Interlock”, the Unabridged Novel In A Nutshell, and “InterlockED”, its Abridged Edition): http://www.batpublishingsoftcovers.vistaprintdigital.com Amazon Author […]

I’ve participated in an anthology selling on Amazon: The Box Under the Bed My contribution to Dan’s anthology is Interlock, a short story of mystery, intrigue, questions and doubtful answers… Give it a try at Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/author/bahelberg3-sp-a_17 +++++ Credit: Photo of book cover, “The Box Under the Bed”, released in October of 2017, from the personal collection […]

… The behinder I get… but I simply will persevere with humor! As a young person trying to find adulthood, I was greatly influenced by the man who took care of our family — eight children and Mother — and who had a quick, stalwart, and calm smile no matter the circumstances in which he […]